Back in February, music and movie fans were shocked to hear that “American Beauty” director Sam Mendes was going to…
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Sixty years ago, a moviegoing public still grieving JFK’s November 1963 assassination, experienced The Cold War U.S. and national leadership…
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Based on Scott Turow’s 1987 legal thriller of the same name, “Presumed Innocent” stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich, a…
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After helping as the second unit director on her father M. Night Shyamalan’s films “Old” and “Knock at the Cabin,”…
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It’s August 1980, and Jake (Blake Jenner) is driving to college. He’s a freshman pitcher on the school’s highly-rated baseball…
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Chaz Ebert recounts her experience at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, from cell phone usage to panels to chats with critics…
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I never know what to say when people tell me that they think the visual effects in an old movie are “dated.”…
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In the final episode of season one of HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) stared straight…
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Plenty of comedies start off how Onyx Collective’s “Queenie” begins: a woman, supine in her gynecologist’s office, exposed, getting unexpected…
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When “Banel & Adama” premiered in competition at Cannes Film Festival in 2023, French-Senegalese writer/director Ramata-Toulaye Sy was in rare…
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